Stability of a granular layer on an inclined "fakir plane"
Soft Condensed Matter
2018-01-17 v1 Geophysics
Abstract
We present here experimental results on the effect of a forest of cylinder obstacles (nails) on the stability of a granular layer over a rough incline, in a so-called "fakir plane" configuration. The nail forest is found to increase the stability of the layer, the more for the densest array, and such an effect is recovered by a simple model taking into account the additional friction force exerted by the pillar forest onto the granular layer.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.4659,
title = {Stability of a granular layer on an inclined "fakir plane"},
author = {Jesica Benito and Yann Bertho and Irene Ippolito and Philippe Gondret},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4659},
year = {2018}
}